N. - 1. - A broad area of open land, often high but poorly drained.
2. - To fix in place or secure.
(Capital M) 3. - A member of a Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent, now living chiefly in northwest Africa.

Nautical

Adj. - Relating to or involving ships, shipping or navigation.

Obstreperous

Adj. - Noisily and stubbornly defiant.

Opus

N. - A creative work, especially a musical composition numbered to designate the order of a composer's works.

Ornithology

N. - The branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds.

Palliation (N.)
Palliate (V.)

N. - Easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause.

V. - To make less severe or intense.

Pathological

Adj. - Relating to or caused by disease.

Piebald

Adj. - Spotted or patched, especially in black and white.

Plausible

Adj. - Giving a deceptive impression of truth or reliability.

Plebiscite

N. - A vote in which a population exercises the right of national self-determination.

Root: Pleb - The people.

Preempt

V. - To appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others.

Prehensile

Adj. - Adapted for seizing, or holding.

Prestige

N. - A level of respect at which one is regarded by others.

Proselytize

Verb. To try to convert or persuade, esp. in religious matters.

Primogeniture

N. - Being first born

Prototype

N. - An original form, or instance serving as a basis for later stages

Rampart

N. - A fortification consisting of an embankment

Recherche

Adj. - Uncommon, or rare.

Refurbish

V. - To make clean or bright

Rendition

N. - The act of rendering, an interpretation of a musical score or dramatic piece

Residue

N. - The remainder of something after removal of parts or a part.

Satrap

N. - A subordinate bureaucrat or official.

Septic

Adj. - Of, relating to, having the nature of, or affected by sepsis.

Skeptic

N. - Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs.

Smattering

N. - A small number or amount.

Spate

N. - A sudden flood, rush, or outpouring.

Stigma

N. - A mark of shame or discredit.

Stultify

V. - To render useless or ineffectual, cripple.

Superimpose

V. - To lay or place (something) on or over something else.

Supernumerary

Adj. - Exceeding a fixed, prescribed, or standard number, extra.

Tatterdemalion

Adj. - A person wearing ragged or tattered clothing.

Tenacity

N. - Persistent determination.

Tesselated

Adj. -- having a checkered appearance An image made up of squares.

Testator

N. One who has made a legally valid will before death.

Timorous

Adj. Full of apprehensiveness; timid

Traumatic

Adj. 1a : Causing an injury (as a wound) to living tissue caused by an extrinsic agent <surgical trauma> b : Causing or experienceing a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from mental or emotional stress or physical injury